Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Spy Who Loved Me Outfit

Parenting or mother does it make you a better doctor? 2.0






In my first child to be born I was with my wife in the typical purchases of "nesting", ie to equip the room the baby crib, same accessories, clothing, pacifiers (dummies), toys, diapers, etc.
When you graduate from pediatrician (or other specialties) feel security when managing a small intensive care (although the hospital's guidelines do not allow it, unless you are a neonatologist or intensivist), a patient pneumonia, meningitis, you know the dose of the antibiotic, protocols, guidelines for managing diabetic ketoacidosis, etc. Made you feel you know what they talk about in the medical drama television series like House, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, and even laugh at your mistakes and jokes "doctors."

What surprises you when you start the outpatient clinic, is that you were taught basic child care, topics that a mother who has at least two children cope better than you know.

resident, was shame that a father was telling us how to make a diaper change, what cream is best for the skin, which bathe the baby, and even how to correctly position a car seat.

After graduating I spent a lot of my academic agenda to the teaching of clinical research and evidence-based medicine, ie, find and apply the best research can be found at this time to clinical decisions that they pass on to my patients so that the two take an informed decision.

be When I come into my shop with sterilizers for baby bottles (my wife plan on storing breast milk, frozen and, while working, can someone feed our baby with mother's milk). Somewhat worn and beginning to ask how much each thing. Bottle sterilizer was not spared the "how much?" My wife turned to face "are a cheap bastard Nazi" Obviously we bought

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But the questions kept coming with every accessory of hygiene and health, which surprised me, after an extensive evaluation to the lack of research on the topic of childcare.

With my patients, prenatal talks had addressed this issue. I decided to update and keep looking for studies that support or refute the use of various health tips. I went to Medline (pubmed) which is the database that we use regularly for scientific articles, most of medicine.
Most pediatricians' advice to parents of patients are based on recommendations of experts, but we need to know that these recommendations will change as someone makes valid research necessary, and to date there is little serious research on the matter.

For example, in the field of sterilizers, studies to date, as it

; still recommend the use of either solution soapy water if you're in a developed country or sterilizers. Not to mention how old use. All are laboratory studies, and none has seen the effect in real life.

There
studies and reviews about pacifier use to reduce the risk of SIDS, there are others that mention the array
roof and lowering the risk factor as well.
Just over a decade, it seemed unlikely the child lie on his back, because he could choke on his own vomit (aspirate), and all our pediatrician recommended we lay the child face-down. Today we know that lying face-down INCREASES the risk of cot death 40 times.

'm learning a lot more than child care, though. At least I know how to build a stroller, what they cost and how will I hold my daughter in a sling. I do not know if being a parent remove objectivity when evaluating your own sick child (I've seen pediatricians who are pediatricians for their children), probably yes. But try to be an informed parent.

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